You may want to suggest to the devs to extend the "UPDATE" syntax with
"ORDER BY"? such that:
update rumple.directory
set right_visit_id = right_visit_id + 2
where right_visit_id >= parent_right
ORDER BY right_visit_id DESC;
...would work by enforcing a certain update order. And index scan is
performed anyway because of the 'where' clause, might as well do it in
order. :)
MySQL does it like that AFAIK.
V.
